News and Updates
2011
FrontLine Articles
- Battling an Epidemic - 11/01/11
USAID has been on the forefront of the HIV epidemic for over 25 years, working to save lives while consistently pushing for greater sustainability, strengthened capacity, and innovation—all major hallmarks of the Agency since its inception 50 years ago.
- Our Neighbors, Ourselves: Guatemala’s Chronic Malnutrition Crosses Borders - 11/01/11
Guatemala’s crisis has been the subject of international press in the last couple of years—finally, the world is learning that one out of every two Guatemalan children younger than 5 years old is chronically malnourished.
- From the Lab to the Field: New Science for Better Food Aid - 11/01/11
USAID is bringing a variety of food products to people in emergency and chronically food-insecure situations. The Agency aims to improve nutrition in targeted populations through more effective use of existing and new food products.
- Pepsi and Chickpeas: An Interview with Derek Yach - 11/01/11
On Sept. 21, PepsiCo Inc. announced a unique, trilateral partnership with USAID and the United Nations World Food Program during the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2011 annual meeting in New York.
- Rwandan Fruit Salad - 11/01/11
Kibagabaga Hospital in Rwanda’s Gasabo district launched and 11 month food program in August in response to survey findings that showed many children in the district are underweight and malnourished.
- Collateral Benefits: How the Pursuit of an AIDS Vaccine Has Boosted African Research - 6/15/11
The USAID-funded and International AIDS Vaccine Initiative-supported Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative has established itself as a model for developing country research institutions, capable of rigorously and ethically evaluating AIDS vaccine candidates and playing a crucial role in the global quest for the vaccine.
- Swaziland's Six-Year Miracle: Effort to Protect Next Generation from HIV Succeeding in the Face of Daunting Odds - 05/01/11
Today, UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) estimates that 67 percent of HIV-positive, pregnant women in Swaziland are receiving the drugs and services needed to prevent transmission to their children.
- Heroin Addict Breaks Habit and Builds Coalition for Women Battling Drugs and HIV - 05/01/11
In addition to supporting self-help groups, USAID helps drug users overcome their heroin addiction through methadone treatment, which has been proven to stem the rate of HIV infection among people who use drugs.
- Collateral Benefits: How the Pursuit of an AIDS Vaccine Has Boosted African Research - 07/01/11
In 1999, the Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative was founded by local scientists with the goal of developing a vaccine that would block infection of the strain of HIV most prevalent in Kenya. Just over a decade later, the USAID-funded and International AIDS Vaccine Initiative-supported center has established itself as a model for developing country research institutions.
- USAID’s Grand Challenges for Development - 07/01/11
USAID’s Grand Challenges for Development are defined in areas where the Agency believes science and technology can play a transformative role in providing solutions. This is a more open approach to solving critical barriers to development because USAID is defining problems, not solutions. Funding will be targeted to those that bring new and different ways of overcoming these critical barriers. To achieve scaled impact, the Agency will support programs that have the measurement and evaluation evidence of success in early implementations.
- 99 Minute Diagnostic: Will New Technology Turn the Tide on the TB War? - 07/01/11
Tuberculosis is an airborne contagious disease: when someone with an active infection coughs, sneezes, talks, or spits, tiny TB bacteria, called bacilli, are released into the air and can be inhaled by others. While anti-TB drugs have been successfully used to treat and cure TB for the past 50 years, roughly 1.8 million people still die annually from the disease, many of whom are between the ages of 15 and 45, the most economically productive age group.
- Family Planning + Fuel-Efficient Cook Stoves = Better Health for Tanzania - 07/01/11
Population, Health, and Environment is an integrated approach to meeting rural community needs for family planning, basic health, and natural resource management. Integration is a key aspect of these programs, which makes the approach more effective and sustainable than delivering the same services in stand alone or parallel programs. The underlying goal is to simultaneously improve access to health services, including family planning, while also helping communities to manage the natural resources upon which they depend, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.
- USAID-Sponsored Science Battles Avian Influenza - 07/01/11
Avian influenza may have escaped the frightening headlines of the last few years, but it is far too early to turn the page on bird flu. Just ask the scientists in Vietnam. Right now they have their hands full figuring out how to beat back a vaccine-resistant strain of virus currently killing chickens and ducks in scattered pockets of the north. Now, as over the past six years, USAID and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization are assisting Vietnam with added resources and technical expertise.
- Wanted: Primary Care Docs in Kyrgyzstan - 05/01/11
In 1996, the Kyrgyz Government, in partnership with USAID, launched an ambitious campaign to transform and streamline the country’s health-care system. This campaign focused on broadening the scope of primary care, strengthening the capacity of providers, and establishing family medicine as the bedrock of the Kyrgyz health-care system.
- Exclusive Interview with WHO's Dr. Margaret Chan - 05/01/11
Dr. Margaret Chan joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003, and was appointed to the post of director-general in 2006. In 1994, she was appointed director of health for Hong Kong, where she introduced initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration.
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